Museums and galleries in Split

Split has a long tradition of collecting and caring for monuments.This interest Rosetta Stone appeared as early as the Renaissance.At the start of the XVIth century, a collection of Antique stone epitaphs was stored in the home of the Split nobleman Dmino Papalic ( today's city Museum ) and they were described in one of his friend's, Marko Marulic's, tracts.The Archbishop's Museum was founded by mid-XVIIIth century, and in 1820 the Archeological Museum, the oldest Croatian Museum.founded in 1820, the Archaeological Museum in Split is the oldest Museum in Croatia.It's got a giant stock of archaeological objects from ancient times, from the period of the Greek colonization of the Adriatic and from the Roman, Early Christian and early Medieval ages.almost all of the monuments come from the region of central Dalmatia, to be more and especially from Salona ( Solin ). Crucial are collections of Rosetta Stone V3 stone epitaphs from Salona ( about 6.000 of them ), of Greek Hellenistic ceramics, of Roman glass, of clay lamps, of objects made out of bone and metal, and of gems.The Museum has an enormous collection of Antique and Medieval coins. The Museum also has a massive library with approximately 30.000 books on archaeology and history as well as on Dalmatica ( books, journals dealing with themes from the history of Dalmatia ).The building housing the Museum was built according to the project of the Viennese architects A. Kirstein and F. Ohmann from 1912 to 1914. The Museum exhibition was replenished in 1970 on the occasion of the 150 anniversary of its existence. Stone monuments ( sculptures, epitaphs ) are exibited in the portico of the lapidarium ; the sequential succession of cultures from prehistory to the Early Rosetta Stone Portuguese Middle Ages is displayed in the exhibit hall.The Museum of Croatian Archaeological Monuments was founded in Knin in 1893. After WW II it was moved to Split and since 1976 it's been in the present building. The Museum has a rich collection of Early Medieval stone monuments and collections of weapons, tools, jewellery, coins and objects of everyday use. Of special significance are the epigraphic monuments from the IXth to the XIIth century where we find engraved the names of Croatian kings and other respected dignitaries.The town Museum of Split was set up in 1946. It is located in the northeastern part of Diocletian's palace, in the compound of Medieval buildinqs at whose center is the Gothic palace of the Papalic family designed and built by the native master Juraj of Dalmatia and his stonecarvers and Cheap Rosetta Stone V3 builders circle. Beautifully excuted are the courtyard with its sumptuously decorated portal and loggia, the 1st floor hall with its generous four-light, two-light and one-light windows and with the well saved wooden ceiling.

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